3 Mistakes That Made WWII Inevitable

The Hillsdale College History Department presents a special public lecture by Victor Davis Hanson.

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.

Hillsdale website: http://www.hillsdale.edu/

Timecodes 0:00 Introduction 1:15 Why WWII Was Unlike Any Other War in History 5:09 The Staggering Death Toll: Why Was WWII So Lethal? 10:05 The Ideologies That Made WWII Uniquely Destructive 11:29 How Did Hitler Conquer Europe So Quickly? 13:35 The Fatal Mistake of Appeasement: Lessons for Today 18:35 American Isolationism & the Versailles Treaty Mistake 21:07 Soviet Collaboration: Stalin's Deal With Hitler 23:08 Three Events That Turned a Border War Into a World War 27:58 Why the Axis Powers Were Always Going to Lose 33:58 Why the Allies Won: Cooperation, Trust & Industrial Power 38:35 Winners & Losers: The Soviet Union, Britain, Japan & the US